Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Back in 97 I got into Heavy Gear and at that time they were
in 1/87th scale.They had a wide range of Gears and Infantry
but, only one of the light tanks were available...So I took a
Roco King Tiger and made this by cutting the top deck turning
it around to rear mount the turret, replaced the standard
turret with a modified M60 and other bits.......

Thursday, January 19, 2012

paleogamer, paleogame, to paleogame, n. 1. a gamer who has been gaming since before 1985; from paleolithic ("old stone"). 2. any game, usu. from a micropress, published before 1985. 3. any game that uses a lot of D&Disms, regardless of the date of publication. 4. game supplement or milieu that is obviously designed for D&D or AD&D. 4. (mild perjorative) a game product that appears to have been published before the widespread use of desktop publishing software. [JPW]
*******************************************************************************************************Addendum: Today's gamers use "paleogamer" to refer to players who've been gamingsince the early eighties. When I started gaming (in the late seventies), the term referred to gamers who started in the early seventies, and is still sometimes used that way.*******************************************************************************************************and a friend put it this way and I quote,"

Paleogamer? Does this make me Neolithic, I wonder, been Gaming since back in the

Sixties! In fact I was "playing with soldiers" (spit) with an age in single figures, in the

Fifties! In the early 60s (My teens) the hobby took off with the advent of cheap plastic

figures and Donald Featherstone, and I realised there were RULES to do this properly,

WOW, you could actually bring to life all those Movies that were constantly playing on

the back of my eyelids. I was a Wargamer per se until discovering D&D, the basic game

that was a re-engineered set of Wargame rules, then AD&D in the late Seventies; after

that never stopped! I figure I am at least Early Stone Age - keep banging the rocks

together, guys! - and may even be a surviving Dinosaur.... though I know gamers older

than me! (Well, knew, they are probably dead by now, or took too many casualties!)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

This is a broad and VERY subjective question, what are the top
ten most played movies turned miniature games? If your like me
and into various historical and Science fiction genera this list can
easily exceed ten! So I'll limit myself to games I've actually took
part in.

In no particular order:

Played three linked games around "Saving Private Ryan" using a
modified Stargrunt rules

"Starship Troopers" at least eight games when the figures and
rule set came out as they were owned by a member of the
games group I was in at the time.

"Gettysburg" that went on for over a month at
my friend Bill's house using Johnny Reb rules.

"Braveheart" did the battle of Stanford Bridge both
the cinematic version and the historic (with the bridge)
Used the old Chainmail rules.

"Return Of The King" did a huge combined game
with the collections of six people (lots of Orc and
humans and various other nasties) took a weekend
to set up and played it on the following used
AD&D Battlesystem.

"Red Dawn" did a series of skirmishes, did this years ago,
forget what game system we used.

"A Bridge Too Far" big micro armor game.

"Predator" did this one a few years
ago with 15mm figs and Stargrunt rules.

"Battle Of Britain" Really big game with 1/144th
scale aircraft, rules and miniatures were made
for that period out of the the UK can't recall the
company that made them.

And the game I subject all my friends to
from the very worst cheeky movie from
the 1980s "Megaforce" used various rules
and scales the latest being 15mm and
Stargrunt.......

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